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Competing in the AAU Area 9 National Qualifier, Randles won the young men’s high jump and triple jump and finished second in the long jump and 110-meter hurdles at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, to qualify for the AAU Junior National Olympic Games later this month in New Orleans.

The former North Hardin High School standout and incoming Campbellsville University sophomore cleared 5 feet, 10 inches in the high jump and 43-06 in the triple jump.

Lydia Gumm is heading for California on Friday night to play in a junior world tournament in San Diego. While she wouldn’t mind winning that event, she wants to win a little closer to home the next two days.

The incoming North Hardin High School junior highlights a large local contingent in the Kentucky Junior Amateur Championship, which will be contested today and Thursday at three area courses.

Attorneys said Tuesday the case of Edward Calli, an Elizabethtown man charged with raping a victim younger than the age of 12, is on track for its Aug. 8 jury trial.

Calli, 33, is accused of three counts of first-degree rape and one count of first-degree sodomy. In all counts, the alleged victim is younger than 12.

According to a previous report, the alleged victim said the assaults began when she was in kindergarten. She said Calli had been raping and sodomizing her for several years, according to a criminal citation.

State and county officials are developing a project to repair structural defects to the bridge that caused its sudden closure, but work probably won’t start until 2012, said Patty Dunaway, chief engineer for Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 4 in Elizabethtown.

Most of the time when the word “cancer” appears in news reports it is followed by an onslaught of statistics that rarely makes the illness personal.

But one exhibit travelling the Lincoln Trail Area Development District, consisting of Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson and Washington counties, is trying to change that. The exhibit intends on giving the dreaded “C” word a face and associate it with hope rather than despair.